GaraxiChat 2.2 User's Guide
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10.1 What is "Garaxi Chat ISP Edition" ?
Garaxi Chat 2.2 or higher possibility to run multiple virtual domains within the single process on the single server, same connection port.
And the result are you can separated
- Server configuration files including the external database integration.
- User's database and rooms.
- Separated concurrent users that's mean user "smith" can chat in virtual domain "A.com" while user "smith" can chat in the domain "B.com" concurrently.
- You can limit the amount of concurrent users per domain.
"Garaxi Chat ISP Edition" ideally for Hosting provider, big community who has many websites and domains.
10.2 What is "Garaxi Chat Rebraned Edition" ?
Garaxi Chat 2.2 or higher possibility to rebrand from "Garaxi Chat" to your brand or Company name. The result is every words from "Garaxi Chat" will be rebraned to yours.
Especially in "About" page, you can replace "Garaxi.com" logo with your logo.
"Garaxi Chat Rebraned Edition" ideally for Web Service provider, Web design company etc. who want to remove every words of "Garaxi" and change to yours.
10.3 What is "Garaxi Chat ISP Rebranded Edition" ?
ISP Rebranded Edition is the result of "Garaxi Chat ISP Edition" plus "Garaxi Chat Rebraned Edition" plus "You can either rebrand to yours or your customers".
The result are you can sell chat services to your customer under your brand or you can sell chat services to your customers plus rebrand to their name.
"Garaxi Chat ISP Rebranded Edition" ideally for Hosting provider, Chat service provider who want to do the marketing under their brand.
10.4 How can I run multiple Virtual domains without purchasing "ISP Edition" ?
Suppose in these situations
- You're Web Hosting provider your first customers already ask you to installed Garaxi Chat.
And your second customer ask you to install another chat server because they want to make it work separately.
- You've 2-4 domains running on 1 single server. And you want to make the chat work separately in each domain on only 1 physical server.
If you're facing with the problems as mentioned above. You or your customers don't need to purchase "ISP Edition".
You or your customers can purchase the Standard "Unlimited Edition" from us. And at the "Admin applet" you can add another virtual domain by put the License key.
The result is each chat session can work separately. User "scott" in domain "A" separately from user "scott" in domain "B".
Both of "scott" can chat concurently in the same server but different domain.
10.5 Virtual domain managements
Once after you've registered the License key to "ISP Edition" , "Rebranded Edition" , "ISP Rebranded Edition" or "Unlimited Edition"
You can click the button "Server config" as figure below
After the "Server Settings" comes cup you should see the dialog as figure below
10.5.1 Add virtual domain
To add another virtual chat session press button "Manage virtual host". After the "License Managements" comes up you could see the dialog as below.
After you've successfully added new virtual host name, now you need to tell all applets to connect to the appropriate virtual domain.
As long as we know the default virtual host for the server is "main".
And the location of server's properties of virtual host "main" is
[INSTALLED_PATH]/server/data/virtual_0/
According to the newly added virtual host, you can see the detail of server's path at the "Actual path" as below.
You can go to that directory and edit the server's directive and properties as you want.
Please note, when you create the new virtual host, Garaxi Chat automaically create the create the Admin account for you
username : Admin
password : Admin
for each virtual domain.
The next step is tell the applet to connect to the right "virtual host".
You can use your favorite text editor open the HTML file that contain applet tag such as [INSTALLED_PATH]/client/demo/lite.html or [INSTALLED_PATH]/client/demo/admin.html and insert this line.
<PARAM NAME="virtual_domain" VALUE="your_crated_domain_name">
As the figure above we've create virtual host name "garaxi.com". So the sample code should be
<PARAM NAME="virtual_domain" VALUE="garaxi.com">
Now reload your applet and try to connect to the new virtual host.
10.5.2 Edit virtual domain
Editing the virtual host/domain is simple as create virtual host. You can edit the "Maximum Concurrent users" and "Brand in each virtual host" as figuure below
You can list and view all virtual host that currently running on your machine and edit or delete it.
10.5.3 Delete virtual domain
Delete virtual domain is quite simple. You just need to select the virtual host from the list and press button "Delete".
10.6 Brands managements
Brand management is quite simple too, you can click and edit the brand and it's done.
Press button "Manage brand" and it will show the dialog as below
You can specify your Application name,Version, Copyright and the about URL.
After finish press button "Update", done.
Try to logout and login again. Click the "About" button and see the detail. It'll be changed to yours.
For the full rebranding you need to change our logo "Garaxi.com" to your logo.
Changing logo from Garaxi to yours can be done by prepare your logo in "gif" or "jpg" format.
Put your logo to the path where your client applet can be accessed.
Use your favorite text editor open HTML file that contain applet code.
Suppose your logo name "logo.gif" and it located in the same directory of applet.
Insert this line into the applet directive.
<PARAM NAME="about_logo_path" VALUE="logo.gif">
Now reload or reopen your chat again, click the "About" button. You can see your logo there.
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